restofworld.org/2026/ai-us-chips-chinese-open-source-models Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”
Saudi Arabia's new Arabic AI model runs on Chinese open-source tech from MiniMax, even as the kingdom builds its computing infrastructure with Nvidia and other U.S. firms. Brazil, Latin America and Central Asia are making the same split bet, buying American chips while running Chinese models, a hedge that's complicating Washington's tech rivalry with Beijing.
— via Rest of World, Kinling Lo
